Scott Macklin

University of Washington

Scott Macklin

University of Washington

Biography

Scott serves as the Creative Director of Interactive Learning at the EarlyEdU Alliance at the University of Washington. He seeks to create a rich infrastructure that supports innovation and collaboration through participatory media and community engagement. Scott is an award winning author, filmmaker and the Producer of Meaningful Makeover – a web-series about creating more engaging early learning environments. Scott uses social media as a powerful tool for learning and building meaningful relationships that create opportunities to engage in acts of social justice. His teaching and scholarship focuses on emerging models of interactive and immersive storytelling and how they are disrupting the ways we can reach and engage our students. His work puts into practice ideas of convening through the creation and development of community-centric stories.

Scott likes to create stories using deep media and can usually be found looking for an espresso.

About Us

Serious Play Conference is a leadership conference for both those who create serious games/simulations and those who implement game-based learning programs. Speakers are the most experienced developers and designers in the industry, the top academic researchers and senior program heads from education, corporate, healthcare, government/military, museums and other emerging areas.